Teenagers Book Reviews
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
03 September 2020;Genre: Adventure
Shoestring, the Boy Who Walks on Air is the follow up novel to the graphic novel Kidglovz. It tells the story of what happens next to the characters from the graphic novel and even includes the book of Kidglovz as part of the story.Shoestring, previously a thief, i...
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Name: Kimberley Lawson
03 September 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
I, Ada is a fascinating fictionalised biography about a remarkable woman whose achievements are only in recent years becoming recognised, nearly 170 years after her death.Ada narrates her own story, from the ages of 5 to 21. In many ways, her story echoes the frust...
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Name: Ruth Cornish
03 September 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
A part fictionalised, part factual account of the childhood and teenage years of the daughter of Lord and Lady Byron, Ada (later Lady Lovelace who became the first computer programmer in the 1800's).Ada has a very strict upbringing yet is very privileged. She is a fascinating girl,...
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Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
Name: Kelly Buxton
03 September 2020;Genre: Adventure
I absolutely loved this book. It is one of those books that I simply couldn't put down. I felt I was on the adventure with Lotti, a feisty, determined and headstrong girl with a head of wild, red curls, who had lost her parents and was at the peril of her scandalous and wicked Uncle and Aunt;...
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Name: Julie Broadbent
27 August 2020;Genre: Environment
Challenge Everything - An Extinction Rebellion Youth Guide to saving the planet is written by the young activist Blue Sandford. She was named by The Times as a 'British Greta Thunberg' and one of the UK's most impressive youth activists. It is the only official youth handbook from Extinction R...
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The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems
Name: Joanna Hewish
27 August 2020;Genre: Poetry
The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems is tragically beautiful and a story that will stay with you for a long time to come. Told completely through a range of poetic devices, this story stands out as original and moving as it interweaves the story of the main chara...
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Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
Name: Lucy Georgeson
27 August 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life - but even in the City of Lights she can't stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago. Only when she meets a cute young Parisian - who happens to have the same name and be a distant re...
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Raybearer
Name: Julie Broadbent
18 August 2020;Genre: Fantasy
Raybearer, a debut novel by Jordan Ifueko, is a fast-paced, fantasy adventure tale. From the outset we are totally immersed into the world which our main character and heroine Tarisai inhabits.Tarisai has always longed to have a close relationship with her mysterio...
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Cinderella is Dead
Name: Beverley Somerset
06 August 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Cinderella is Dead is an unusual book - a horror story based upon a well-loved fairy tale. In the fictional town of Lille, it is 200 years since Cinderella met Prince Charming and (apparently) lived 'happily ever after'. But for the girls and women living in Lille today, life...
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Name: Lorraine Ansell
06 August 2020;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Greer MacDonald is once again reeling from events connected to the Order of the Stag, but this time no one can quite believe what she has seen, causing her to doubt her own mind. Drawn very quickly to the de Warlencourts' London home, Greer and her friends discover further secrets and secretiv...
